Here is where Canoe is Mid-March.
Here is where Canoe needs to be on April 20.
Long Hours
You can see why CEE Canoe is putting in long hours sanding down ZomBEAR, this year’s entry into the ASCE Mid-Pacific Regional Competition. Once the canoe is sanded, team members will apply the graphics, which this year feature a mural of the (new) Bay Bridge…with zombies coming out of it. ZomBEAR.
The team is also busy preparing the technical report, due March 15, and practicing their paddling every weekend, and many week days, at Berkeley's Aquatic Park.
Canoe has 30 active members and almost all of them will attend Mid-Pac at San Jose State University on April 20. According to May Wong, Canoe Project Manager, the team has had good chemistry all year, with an easy give-and-take of opinions on how to construct Berkeley's entry.
"Canoe is a great way to see the principles and techniques learned in class actually come together in the construction," says Wong.
When asked what she learned most about leading a team, Wong said, “I learned that being a leader doesn’t mean that everything you do you want to do. But you do things you don’t want to do for the good of the team.
"Because if you do it, then other members of the team members can focus on what they need to do.”
Video of the 2012 Concrete Canoe Team and their entry, GraffiCal.